The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-11

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| the water.
UP to this time forty-four railroad com
panies have filed with the interstate com
merce commission formal petitions asking
! to be relieved from section four of the in
terstate commerce law.
BRIDGET MORGAN, a girl in Chicago
hotel kitchen, while engaged in cutting
bananas from huge bunch, was stung by
a tarantula, which was concealed in the
| fruit, and may not live.
JOHN II. WARDwELL, who came into
prominence in the litigation over the miser
Paine's property in New York, died at Bris-
toll, r.. l., Friday. His final illness was of a
mental nature, bordering upon insanity.
EXPRESS MESSENGER FoTHERINGHAM of
st. Louis has sued the Adams Express Com
pany for 100000 damages for false arrest
and imprisonment in connection with the
recent st. Louis and San Francisco train
robbery.
DISPATCHES from various parts of central
and southern New York and northern
Pennsylvania report heavy thunder-storms
Friday. In several instances persons were
killed by the lightning and much property
was burned.
A FREIGHT-TRAIN on the st. Louis &
Iron Mountain railroad was thrown from
| the track by landslide near Cliff Cave
station, Mo. The slide buried six cars and
the engine out of sight. The engineer and
fireman escaped
SEvENTY-FIvE thousand to 100000 of the
funds of the Will county Qllinois) National
Bank are missing. The officials of the con-
Germ admit that it is big shortage, but say
that it was caused by Cashier Knowlton's
bad financial management.
A HUNDRED white miners were smothered
in mine at Nanimo, b. c., last week They
came mostly from England and Nova
Scotia. Forty-fve women are made widows
and one hundred thirty children orphans by
tla1 M 10 had pf
ing the lives of the victims.
JUDGE AUGUSTUS SCHooNMACHER of the
interstate commerce commission states that
the commission has taken seven hundred
pages of testimony, embracing all the
southern roads. The preponderance of this
testimony forces a continuation of a sus-
pension of the short-haul " clause.
A STORY comes from various points in
Arizona which seems still to need supple
menting 1t is told that an earthquake has
occurred which greatly disturbed Tucson
and the vicinity of the San Pedro river.
Volcanic eruptions are also reported and
also the sudden disappearance of a lake near
Tombstone.
The interstate commission has received a
communication from proprietors of hotels,
boarding-houses and eating-houses of the
city of San Francisco, representing that the
prices of provisions in that city have been
enormously advanced by the dealers therein,
alleging in justification thereof increased
rates of transportation, referable to section
four of the interstate commerce law.
A LANDSLIDE on the Fitchburg railroad
wrecked freight-train Friday night. The
train encountered the slide near Miller IS
Falls 1t threw thirty cars over an embank-
ment. One brakeman, John Hall, was
buried under the debris and killed. The
engine lies wrecked down the embankment
The engineer and fireman saved their lives
by jumping and were injured, but not seri-
ously.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has written a review OF
General Wolseey's Life of General Lee
Mr.. Davis takes exception to many of the
English generals statements, and, while not
finding fault with the superlative opinion
of General Lees military ability expressed
considers General Wolseeys criticisms OF
: other southern leaders unjust and UNI
warrantable.
PARIS dispatch says: " Last week
Wednesday night crowd numbering about
1000 persons marched down the Rue Royale
i rapidly across the Place de Concorde, in
tending to reach the German embassy
The police charged upon and dispersed the
: crowd, which soon reformed however, an(
started for the Elysee. Another charg,
was made by the police and the mob scat
r tered in all directions"
d The American consul at London, Ontario
reports that the effect of the interstate law
< has been disastrous to trade between Canadi
e and the United States, scarcely any com
merce being now conducted. With point
II like Detroit and Buffalo, close to the border
: Canadian roads cannot yet give merchants
rates for through business to American
, points, and owing to uncertainty about thu
l cost of delivery in the United States ship
pers hesitate to send merchandise.
10 SPECIAL kilograms to Bradstreets iron
. about one hundred cities and towns las
IL agrttnT 60. tlaa
trade prospects. At Pittsburg, Cincinnati
I st. Louis, Davenport, New Orleans and Sal
$ Francisco there has been an actual improve
ment, general merchandise moving freely
d somewhat IN excess of previous weeks
l. Philadelphia, Boston and Omaha repor
less trouble with the new rail rates. A
other western points the readjusting tn
y freight charges continues with noticeabl
- good effect.
A SPECIAL from Marquette, Mich, says
Il " AS communication improves reports of tn
J" recent wind storm are coming in freely
The thirteen counties of the upper peniI
s. sula were all swept. In some rich pin
% fields trees were moved down like gras
and millions of feet of pine were destroyed
e. Houses were unroofed or demolished, III
r, finished buildings scattered and chimney
and outhouses destroyed. Scarcely a tow
a. or settlement escaped. Only three fatalitie
m are reported, but many were seriously IL
jured. There was no cyclone, but the win
was straight blast OF from TWO
70 ten hours duration. 1t is estimated ths
III the damage for the upper peninsula wi
reach 100000, including pine stumpage d.
is stroyed."
+ No man can go to the Red River countr
of Texas and live in peace, it would appea
at unless he is well prepared for war. Luckil
" for him, Walter Ridgely knew that. II
IT, had been with Custer, and had learned no
-, to shoot quickly and with extreme accurac
u, The quarrel arose in the first place becauS
III Ridgely interfered with two brother
y Murphy who We're maltreating strang
st because he would not give them five dolla
g, for service worth fifty cents. They a
er tempted to shoot him, but he shot first an
disposed OF both of them. Then broth,
* and an uncle of these Murphys came to tai
s. revenge. They waylaid Ridgely one nigl
e. in piece of woods and killed his hors
He fell with it, and they thought they hf
. killed him, too, but he lay still until the
d. were close and then got up and shot ther
n' Then the three remaining Murphys-tv
ID brothers and another unce-came into IL
neighborhoOd and vowed that Ridge
of should die. They went to his barn OF
IS night and created disturbance. He wei
ly out with a revolver in each hand to 81
what the matter was. They all fired upt
la him from ambush, but he was not wound,
to so badly but that he was able TO kill the
is all three with as many shots. This seri
of events differs from the ordinary vendet
H. in many ways. In every case the killil
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